In a statement announcing his resignation, Franks acknowledged that he learned this week that the committee was looking into complaints from two female former staffers.

"Due to my familiarity and experience with the process of surrogacy, I clearly became insensitive as to how the discussion of such an intensely personal topic might affect others," Franks said in the statement.

* Minnesota Sen. Al Franken (D) announced on the Senate floor Thursday afternoon that he plans to resign by the end of the year after a series of allegations that he groped and forcible kissed multiple women.

And that list doesn't even take into account the allegations that continue to swirl around Alabama Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore as the December 12 special election to replace Attorney General Jeff Sessions draws ever closer.

That's remarkable. And there are a few people in Washington who believe the men forced out of office this week due to allegations of inappropriate conduct with and around women will be the last people caught up in this.

Anyone who has spent time covering Congress knows that it is one of the last old boys' clubs in the country. You'd be forgiven, after spending a day on the Hill, if you had to look at a calendar to remind yourself that it's 2017, not 1957.

The Point: The reckoning we've seen sweep the country regarding men behaving badly has come to Washington in a major way this week. And it's not likely to leave anytime soon.

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